In U.S. push, Japanese EDA vendor hits first DAC

In U.S. push, Japanese EDA vendor hits first DAC

SAN FRANCISCO— Jedat Inc., a successful Japanese vendor of high-performance analog and mixed signal EDA tools, is exhibiting at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) here for the first time in an effort to spur adoption in the U.S. amid the decline of the Japanese semiconductor industry.

Jedat is well entrenched in Japan as a supplier to Japanese chip companies. The firm spun out of Japan's Seiko Instruments Inc. in 2004.

But Japan's semiconductor industry has contracted in recent years through acquisitions and other consolidations and, more recently, the bankruptcy filing of Elpida Memories Inc. earlier this year. As a result, Jedat is seeking to strike up business among firms in the U.S. and elsewhere, accoridng to Kyosuke Kitagawa, vice president of international sales at the firm.

"With the Japanese semiconductor industry shrinking, we cannot expect to continue to show much growth [in Japan]," Kitagawa said.

As of now, Jedat has no presence in the U.S. The company plans to open its first U.S. sales and support office later this year in or around the Silicon Valley, Kitagawa said. The company currently has distribution partners in South Korea, Beijing, Shanghai, Taiwan and the west coast of the U.S.


Kyosuke Kitagawa, vice president of international sales at Jedat Inc., in the firm's booth at DAC.

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